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Proverbs 5:10

Tree of Life Version

lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.

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Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

do not give your vigor to women, or your ways to what ruins kings.

At the end of your life, you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent—

lest you give your strength to others and your years to one who is cruel;

For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.

He will not accept any compensation, he will not consent, even if your bribe is great.

Strangers devoured his strength— yet he does not know it. Gray hairs have spread on him— and he does not know it.

But when this son of yours came—the one who has squandered your wealth with prostitutes—for him you killed the fattened calf!”